[vox-tech] Automated backups of files on remote FTP server

[Tim Riley]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:05 -0700, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I've been tasked with finding a way to backup our files on our remote host to 
> a local server on a regular basis.  Trouble is I can only get to the remote 
> host via FTP.  Both systems run Linux.
> 
> What's the best way to go about doing this?

Here's an ftp shell script that you can put in crontab.

:
# ftp_get.sh
# ----------
#
# Freely available software. See appaserver.org .
# -----------------------------------------------

if [ "$#" -lt 4 ]
then
	echo "Usage: $0 host directory 'filespec' username [password]" 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

host=$1
directory=$2
filespec=$3
username=$4

if [ "$#" -eq 5 ]
then
	password=$5
else
	stty -echo
	echo -n "Password: "
	read password
	echo ""
	stty echo
fi

(
	echo "open $host"
	echo "user $username $password"
	echo "prompt"
	echo "binary"
	echo "cd $directory"
	echo "mget \""$filespec"\""
	echo "close"
) | ftp -n -v

exit 0


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